Do What You Love

It's a new year, and new things are happening. Some of you will recall that The Brioche Lady and I got our hearts broken last year. In fact, it was the equivalent of a coma. I'm talking ICU serious! IV lines and plastic tubes down your throat type of serious. For a brief moment, The Brioche Lady couldn't bake, and I couldn't see patients anymore. You know it was terrible when a baker stops baking, and a physician stops doctoring his patients. During this time, I realized that I couldn't give up

Knocked down in 2018? Took a hard blow? Reflect on 2018 and learn from it. Leave your gloves on for 2019 because the bell for round two just rang. Let's go and earn our belt!

Every year millions fall ill to the flu and it accounted for 79,000 deaths last year according to CDC estimates. The best prevention tool is the good old fashion flu vaccine. Talk to your healthcare professional to see if this is appropriate for you.

The Brioche Lady Show #11: Medication Need To Know The goal to any patient encounter is to determine if any medication can be eliminated reasonably and safely. My intentions are to shrink, not grow your medication list. However, anything good and worthwhile in life takes time, dedication, and hard work. Unfortunately, most individuals are not able or willing to put in the effort. Nevertheless, I’ll try my best to reduce your medication list. The key to anything is communication. This is

If you have been following The Brioche Lady and I on Facebook, you will know that we took a month vacation with all our kids to France this past summer. We had such a great time with family and friends. I joked that we didn’t want to return home but my home mortgage demanded my return. My wife and I wanted to make sure that the trip was not only fun but educational in some way. So my wife, kids, and I sat around and came up with a list of 3 things we learned while visiting France.  # 1 - Take

My wife and I are a typical Hmong family. We value tradition and have many children by today’s standards. We were both fortunate enough to be raised in wonderful countries that gave us hopes, opportunities, and dreams. I was born in Laos but grew up here in the land of the free, the great USA. My better half was born and raised in lovely France. Most of our lives were about changing diapers, doing laundry, and keeping the dishes from piling too high (okay, it was mostly my wife while I was busy

Now that I have acknowledged & embraced my passion for baking, I usually bake once a week for my children and husband. Initially, I baked for my family & during special occasions but eventually this expanded beyond family and friends. As a result of that, I started to notice that others had positive comments about my brioche outside of my husband and children. I find it difficult to completely believe my husband because I wondered if he just wanted me to bake (because he likes to eat pastries)